新书《中国人物：变迁之地的变迁生活剪影》（Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land）中，编者安吉利•沙（Angilee Shah）和杰弗瑞•瓦瑟施特伦（Jeffrey Wasserstrom）试图对普通中国人的生活进行一番梳理。

本书由短小的传记体章节组成，均由一些权威的中国通撰就。读者会在书中看到包括情场失意的藏族企业家、达观的民族主义者以及中国领军重金属吉他手在内的一系列人物。

Though China is currently in the global spotlight, few outside its borders have a feel for the tremendousdiversity of the lives being led inside the country. This collection of compelling stories challenges oversimplified views of China by shifting the focus away from the question of China's place in the global order and zeroing in on what is happening on the ground. Some of the most talented and respected journalists and scholars writing about China today profile people who defy the stereotypes that are broadcast in print, over the airwaves, and online. These include an artist who copies classical paintings for export to tourist markets, Xi'an migrant workers who make a living recycling trash in the city dumps, a Taoist mystic, an entrepreneur hoping to strike it rich in the rental car business, an old woman about to lose her home in Beijing, and a crusading legal scholar.

The immensevariety in the lives of these Chinese characters dispels any lingering sense that China has a monolithic population or is just a place where dissidents fight Communist Party loyalists and laborers create goods for millionaires. By bringing to life the exciting, saddening, humorous, confusing, and utterly ordinary stories of these people, the gifted contributors create a multi-faceted portrait of a remarkable country undergoing extraordinary transformations.



CONTRIBUTORS:

Alec Ash, James Carter, Leslie T. Chang, Xujun Eberlein, Harriet Evans, Anna Greenspan, Peter Hessler, Ian Johnson, Ananth Krishnan, Christina Larson, Michelle Dammon Loyalka, James Millward, Evan Osnos, Jeffrey Prescott, Megan Shank

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